Benjamin Bratton
Director, Antikythera
Benjamin Bratton is Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at University of California, San Diego. He is also Director of Antikythera, an cross-disciplinary think-tank researching the philosophy of computation supported by Berggruen Institute, and Visiting Faculty Researcher in Google's Paradigms of Intelligence group. He is the author of several books including The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 02015), The Terraforming (Strelka Press, 02019), and The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World (Verso, 02020). His current book projects deal with the history of planetary technologies, the evolutionary paradox of intelligence, a formal theory of artificialization, and the paradigmatic conjunction of biology and technology.